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Another trying feature of the Young Person is his wholesale intolerance of everything and everybody.Only himself and perhaps one or two of his own friends escape his censure.These being covered with the mantle of his approbation, are beyond criticism.…Cited from The Secret of a Happy Home (1896), by Marion Harland

I received the review, for which I thank you, and beg leave through you to express my best acknowledgments to the unknown reviewer.I do not by this mean to say that I think every one of his censures just.On the contrary, if I had an opportunity of personal conference with so candid and sensible a man, I think I could in some degree acquit myself of a part of the faults he has found.…Cited from A Publisher and His Friends, by Samuel Smiles

Those men, however, O king, who suffer themselves to be attached to all worldly objects, tread along a path that is entirely different.A person should rot himself do that act which, if done by another, would call down his censure.Indeed, by doing an act that one censures in others, one incurs ridicule.…Cited from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3

If she had excelled in her studies and advanced more rapidly than other girls in her class, he was the cause.She needed his praise, his censure to spur her on in her work.With him gone, it seemed to her that her own life, too, had come to an end, not realizing, in her youthful inexperience, that it had not yet commenced.…Cited from Bought and Paid For, by Arthur Hornblow

Upon the attempt at modern dress in sculpture, he is severe in his censure.Cited from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327, February 1843, Vol. 53

All the superior plans he claimed for himself, though he executed none of them, but for the inferior management he blamed others, even though it was through his orders that some accident had taken place.Those who succeeded incurred his hatred and those who failed his censure.Domitian, being defeated by the Marcomani, took to flight and by hastily sending messages to Decebalus, king of the Dacians, induced him to make a truce with him.…Cited from Dio's Rome, Volume V., Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211), by Cassius Dio

He was certainly in the right, when he took the matter largely.I cannot prevail on myself to agree with him in his censure of his own conduct.It is not, he will give me leave to say, either useless or dangerous.…Cited from Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12), by Burke

He would consider British sailors as made up of precisely the same elements as the rest of men, and that the obvious peculiarities in which they differ from others, are the result of the circumstances of their professional situation.It follows, that his censure falls on the profession itself, rather than on those who are members of it.But in fact, he conceives that there has been a culpable neglect on the part of those who at different periods acquire authority, to the moral condition of this class of men.…Cited from Voyages and Travels, Vol. XIV, by Robert Kerr

This was a serious annoyance to him, though his features and manner always evinced perfect equanimity.Neither the new system of cookery nor the quality of the dishes ever met with his censure.He was waited on by two valets, who stood behind his chair.…Cited from Memoirs of Napoleon, V16, by Bourrienne

When he had spoken to her to-day, as she passed him on her way to the garden, she had felt as though she could hardly bring herself to answer him -- and always revenge was in her mind.Revenge -- to show him how little she cared for his censures.When, therefore, Hescott during the evening asked her to go for a ride with him before breakfast next morning, she had said yes quickly -- so quickly, that Hescott foolishly believed she meant more than a readiness to ride in the early morning.…Cited from The Hoyden, by Mrs. Hungerford [AKA: Margaret Wolfe Hamilton]

He at least accords us the virtues of our defects, and, among the many visitors who have censured us, he has not seen us with his censures prepared to fit the instances; in fact, the very reverse has been his method.Many of the instances which he fits with his censures are such as he could no longer note, if he came among us again.That habit of celebrating the munificence of the charitable rich, on which he spends his sarcasm, has fallen from us through the mere superabundance of occasion.…Cited from Through the Eye of the Needle, W. D. Howells

This variation is the same (and from the same causes) with that which I formerly remarked with regard to Scepticism.Thus PHILO continued to the last his spirit of opposition, and his censure of established opinions.But I could observe that DEMEA did not at all relish the latter part of the discourse; and he took occasion soon after, on some pretence or other, to leave the company.…Cited from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, D. Hume

He first thinks fit no sonnetteer advance His censure, farther than the song or dance.Your wit burlesque may one step higher climb, And in his sphere may judge all doggrel rhyme: All proves, and moves, and loves, and honours too; All that appears high sense, and scarce is low.…Cited from The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 2 (of 18), ed. by Walter Scott

And so he comes to the special application of the principles he has laid down to the American scholar of to-day.He does not spare his censure; he is full of noble trust and manly courage.…Cited from Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Oliver Wendell Holmes

What can his censure hurt me, whom the world Hath censured vile before me!Cited from Cynthia's Revels, Ben Jonson

Madam, the King is old enough himself To give his censure; these are no women's matters.Cited from King Henry VI, Part 2, by William Shakespeare

In general, however, it may be supposed, that few ventured to dispute his opinion, or place themselves of his censure.He was most falsely accused of carrying literary jealousy to such a length, as feloniously to encourage Creech to venture on a translation of Horace, that he might lose the character he had gained by a version of Lucretius.…Cited from The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Vol. I, ed. by Sir Walter Scott

A patriot wished to open his eyes, but he could not pierce through the crowds of his flatterers; besides that the voice of patriotism heard in a corrupted court would have become a crime never pardoned.He found, however, an ingenious manner of conveying to him his censure.…Cited from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3), by Isaac D'Israeli

He could not repent his determination to win at any price; yet he shrank, with a moral cowardice which made him inwardly writhe, from owning that Cherry had made the sacrifice at which Clyde and the others had hinted.If it were indeed true, it placed him in an intolerable position, wherein he could express neither his gratitude nor his censure.No doubt she had read the signs of his mental confusion, and her own delicate sensibility had responded to it.…Cited from The Silver Horde, by Rex Beach

His censure reached them as he dealt it.And each by shrinking show'd he felt it.…Cited from The Talking Beasts, by Various